Woman Run Over by Own Truck After Fleeing from Police

**kellyhound** · #1 ● 09-19-2011, 03:10 PM

EPHRATA A woman, who ran herself over attempting to flee police, will serve more than a year in prison.

A Grant County jury found Jona Zeigler, 40, Moses Lake, guilty of attempting to elude police after about three hours of deliberating, according to court records.

Zeigler faced a possible range of a year and two months to a year and five months in prison, according to the prosecutor's office.

Grant County Superior Court Judge Evan Sperline sentenced Zeigler to a year and three and a half months in prison, according to court records.

"Running from the police is dangerous to the public and to police officers.

The police dashcam was put online this week.

In fact, the number one cause of law enforcement fatalities is vehicular collisions," Prosecutor Angus Lee stated.

"But what most people don't realize is that running from the police is even more dangerous to the person running away.

We often see those running away wreck their car or motorcycle and cause serious injury or death to themselves.

This case was unique in that the defendant actually got out of the car while it was moving and then ran over herself."

A Moses Lake police officer contacted Zeigler in late January about a felony warrant, while she was parked near West Broadway Avenue and South Locust Lane.

When the officer approached the woman to arrest her, she drove away.

She drove through downtown Moses Lake, ending up on Lakeview Drive near South Barbara Avenue, when she jumped from the truck and hung by the steering wheel, according to Moses Lake police and the prosecutor's office.

She drove the truck into a fence and fell, being pinned beneath the rear wheel.